Coca Cola Thank You Fund

Overview

Fund Objective 

A fund of €200,000 / £171,000 (sterling figure based on conversion rates at the time) will be available again this year. The 2025 Fund will focus on one overall theme: Supporting and empowering youth interventions across the island of Ireland under the pillars of Inclusion and Inspiration. 

The Fund is seeking applications from community-based projects and programmes across Ireland and Northern Ireland that are focused on empowering young people aged 16-25 who are not in employment, education or training, or are at risk of disengagement. 

In particular, the projects funded will target young people experiencing economic disadvantage under one of the following two pillars:

1.  Inclusion: Empowering young people through education and employability

 The fund will support education programmes that promote mentorship, increase employability skills, enhance personal agency and strengthen essential life skills. 

• Help them understand how your intervention will develop young people’s soft skills such as communication and resilience to promote economic and social prosperity or increase young people's direct employability skills. 

OR 

• Help them understand how your intervention will support successful school completion, or access to further education opportunities to enhance long-term prospects for young people at risk of early school leaving or disaffection. 

2. Inspiration: Supporting young people to take positive action to create a better society. 

The fund will support projects and programmes focused on community interventions and empowerment initiatives aimed at ensuring all young people feel valued, supported and included in society. 

• Help them understand how your work is engaging at risk young people in processes of positive learning and development

OR 

• Help them understand how your work is fostering social connections and creating safe spaces for young people to explore challenges in their lives

*Applications are not limited to the examples listed above. These are included to offer an idea of the types of projects we aim to support through this year’s Coca-Cola Thank You Fund. 

The fund will support not-for-profit or charitable organisations working with young people across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland aged between 16-25 years.

Eligibility

To be eligible the applying organisation must; 

1. Work with young people aged between 16-25 years old. 
2. Be a registered not-for-profit or charitable organisation. 
3. Have a bank account set up in the name of the organisation. 
4. Be registered in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland and active for the past 12 months. 
5. Have a child protection / safeguarding policy in place. 

What funding opportunities are available? 

Awards of between €8,000 - €15,000 / £7,000 - £13,000 (sterling figure based on conversion rates at the time) will be available. Organisations applying for funding will be asked to submit a detailed budget breakdown of expenditure for the total funds being requested. The final allocation of awards will be determined after all applications have been reviewed.